Podcast Episodes featuring Matt Parker

Start Up Stories: Launching A Creative Business With Matt Parker

Rebel Entrepreneur - May 16, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour
How do you create monetary stability as a creative? In a field where steady income can be hard to come by, where should you start looking to find some form of security? Instead of searching for these things, this week’s guest Matt Parker suggests ways in which you can create it for yourself! Toge...

Null Misadventures (w/ Matt Parker), Why Reheated Coffee Tastes Bad, and the Ancestor of Most Living Animals

Curiosity Daily - May 04, 2020 07:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 869 ratings
Learn why coffee tastes bad when you reheat it; and how researchers found the ancestor of most living animals. Stand-up mathematician Matt Parker will also explain why the word “null” causes so many problems for computer programmers. Why does coffee taste bad when you reheat it? by Andrea Miche...

Using Lava Lamps to Generate Randomness (w/ Matt Parker), How Ritalin Makes You Focus, and What Bacteria Beneath the Sea Floor Means for Life on Mars

Curiosity Daily - April 27, 2020 07:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 869 ratings
Learn about how drugs like Ritalin and Adderall actually make you “focus,” how tech companies are using lava lamps to make computers more secure, and why new life discovered at the bottom of the ocean opens up new possibilities for finding life on Mars. Scientists figured out how Ritalin actual...

Stealing Money with Salami Slicing Attacks (w/ Matt Parker), You Don’t Know the Back of Your Hand, and Tylenol Eases Social Exclusion

Curiosity Daily - April 20, 2020 07:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 869 ratings
Stand-up mathematician Matt Parker explains real-life “salami slicing” attacks like the one in the movie Office Space. You’ll also learn about how Tylenol can help ease the pain of social rejection; and why you probably don’t know the back of your hand very well at all. Tylenol and forgiveness ...

The Skyscraper-Shaking Fitness Class (w/ Matt Parker), When Hanger Is Most Likely to Strike, and Studying the Human Brain’s Jiggle

Curiosity Daily - April 13, 2020 07:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 869 ratings
Learn about when you’re most likely to feel hangry (and how to avoid it); what scientists can learn from watching the human brain jiggle; and how resonant frequencies helped a fitness class shake an entire skyscraper — with help from stand-up mathematician Matt Parker. Scientists Determined Whe...